"All punk is is attitude, that's what makes it, the attitude." —Joey Ramone.

A sociolinguist wonders if they’ll ever be able to interpret the waves, high beams and middle fingers of human drivers.

The nature of human behaviour is complex, sometimes illogical, and often difficult to understand. We, however, are curious creatures, eager to find out the truths behind every question, always striving to know more. That is why there’s no surprise that over the years many psychological experiments were conducted in order to delve deeper into the human mind and to clear out the why’s and the how’s of our behaviour. By Agne.

Men are defenseless against female insanity. Sane women could act as a regulating force. Sane woman have to stand up against their crazy sisters and say : "Enough of that".

It’s called “anting,” and it is weird. By Eric Grundhauser.

Here’s something you probably didn’t do this morning: Look in the mirror and ask, am I a jerk? It seems like a reasonable question. There are, presumably, genuine jerks in the world. And many of those jerks, presumably, have a pretty high moral opinion of themselves, or at least a moderate opinion of themselves. They don’t think of themselves as jerks, because jerk self-knowledge is hard to come by.

Narcissism and self-esteem have very different developmental pathways and outcomes. Narcissism is associated with the need to dominate others and the need to achieve superior resources. In contrast, high self-esteem is much more associated with the desire to establish deep, intimate relationships with others.

The Asch experiment (1953) - The Good Samaritan Experiment (1973) - Bystander Apathy Experiment (1968) - The Stanford Prison Experiment (1971) - The Milgram Experiment (1961)

Physically stronger men are less in favour of social and economic equality than weaker men, new research from Brunel University London indicates.

How much did Plato know about behavioural economics and cognitive biases? Pretty much everything, it turns out. By Nick Romeo.

The endangered Egyptian vultures have taken to mud baths and painting their faces at their stronghold in the Canaries. But why do they care about cosmetics? By Sandhya Sekar.

New research shows that seeing through another's eyes takes a detached mind not just a warm heart.

The political left might consider itself more open-minded than the right. But research shows that liberals are just as prejudiced against conservatives as conservatives are against liberals. By Matthew Hutson.

Has it ever seemed to you that less competent people rate their competence higher than it actually is, while more competent people humbly rate theirs lower? It’s not just your imagination.

In computer-mediated communication, you would expect that because there aren’t many opportunities to signal irony and provide cues, like gestures or facial expressions, you would expect that people avoid it. But they don’t. The internet speaks for itself on this point, but research also backs it up: In 2004, Stanford communications professor Jeff Hancock published a study in the Journal of Language in Social Psychology suggesting that people may use sarcasm more frequently online than they do in face-to-face interaction. Sarcasm is alive and well online; that much is obvio

it might be time to revise the authenticity trope in romantic movies… By Christian Jarrett.

New research from Poland successfully recreates Stanley Milgram’s famous obedience studies from the 1960s.

We tend to believe that people telegraph how they're feeling through facial expressions and body language and we only need to watch them to know what they're experiencing -- but new research shows we'd get a much better idea if we put ourselves in their shoes instead.

Are you surrounded by fools? Are you the only reasonable person around? Then maybe you’re the one with the jerkitude. By Eric Schwitzgebel.

We talked to a researcher behind a new study on the motivations behind revenge to find out why burning all your ex's clothes just feels right. By Kimberly Lawson.